Hunt Data · Upland

Read the Cover. Trust the Dog.

Every region grows a different bird community, its upland fingerprint. Learn the birds, the cover that holds them, and the hours they move, then go where the seasons say go.

In Season NowRuffed Grouse Sharp-Tailed Grouse Sage Grouse Hungarian Partridge Mourning Dove

Species Guide Season Calendar Region Fingerprints Match the Hunt Upland School

Match the Hunt

Pick a region and a month. We cross-reference its fingerprint, seasons, and conditions into a ranked plan.

Region

Month

Conditions

88°F · W 12

Activity

34 · Building

The Read

Sep in Montana Prairie & Breaks: lead with Sharp-Tailed Grouse (100% likely) and hunt the morning feed. Keep a Hungarian Partridge plan in your vest.

Sharp-Tailed Grouse

Tympanuchus phasianellus · 2.1 lb

100%

Hunt the Morning Feed

Coveys feed grass ridgetops and berry draws while it's cool.

Cover

Native prairie ridges, grass-shrub draws, chokecherry

Trigger

September fronts kill the heat and bring all-day movement

Hungarian Partridge

Perdix perdix · 14 oz

67%

Hunt the Morning Stubble Feed

Coveys feed waste grain in stubble, edging along grass margins.

Cover

Wheat stubble, grass margins, gravel roadsides

Trigger

Cool, damp mornings after a front are the holding-cover days

Sage Grouse

Centrocercus urophasianus · 5.5 lb

67%

Hunt the Morning Meadow Feed

Flocks feed forbs in wet meadows and alfalfa edges off the sage.

Cover

Big sagebrush seas, wet meadows, alfalfa edges

Trigger

Barely weather-driven. Find sage and moisture, find birds

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